Sofia didn't want to venture outside of her room. She'd stayed inside and cried on and off for days but she had more than just herself to worry about. Spot, the dog she and Laurie had adopted, needed exercise so Sofia brought him to Hydroponics. After wandering aimlessly for a bit she sat down under a tree and watched as the purple and green dog ran around.

You didn't have to be an expert to see that Sofia's normal cheer was gone.

[[OOC: This is closed to Aang but if you really want your character to run into a depressed Sofia you can poke me then comment.]]

Anwei wanted a messaging laser so hard that she could taste it. A nice, simple, hand-held, low-fade messaging laser would have let her contact every ship grounded on Gondepetil in one sweep. It would let her send messages to other ships in space or the Bleed, if they had their receivers open. Just let her get through to the Vizsnunishne – somehow – and she would be on her way to finding out what was actually going on. The laser was standard equipment, really; shouldn't every ship have one?

But there was no sign of one in the Armory (or if it was there, the index wasn't showing it to her). She'd have to see if the parts were available to build it herself. Most of what she needed was in Engineering, but not everything; if she could find a precision micro-mirror array chip, she wouldn't have to make the targeting mechanisms quite so precise. And she wanted an optical linkage to the data transmission system, so she could carry information on a shielded datastore and not have it out in the open until she was ready to send.

She changed out the denim shirt she normally wore over her plantsuit for the grey jacket she had bought in Orongo; the spattering of alien text across it apparently read 'Love is a river, dive on in' but hopefully nobody would stop to read it. Then she went down to Special Weapons and started doing inventory – or rather, started searching for the parts she needed while labeling everything that she recognized on her omnicomm. She was trying to be useful, and if the search served her own purposes as well, who would be harmed?

Taking some friendly advice, Zouichi had come down to visit the Media Library and get a rundown on some advanced human interaction. He should probably have asked which movies would be best suited for the task, however, because there were quite a few available in the pod room.

He picked a title at random, instead -- an action movie about a half-vampire marauding about with bladed weapons fighting other vampires.

Well, there seemed to be plenty of magical or mythical beings aboard the ship -- maybe this would make good research material.

He kicked back and began to watch.

[Doing this mainly to meet up with Kanaya, but feel free to come in if you feel the need to watch cheesy vampire flicks.]